Gamers have already come to terms with the fact that RAM will be in perpetual shortage due to AI corporations
Hoping a burst bubble will bring things back to normal rarely pans out. That's exactly how the situation with memory and storage looks right now, and any hope that RAM and SSD prices will return...
A dead Falmer embraces a captive in Dwemer ruins, and it's one of the darkest details in Skyrim
Skyrim has trained players to look for stories where none officially exist. Stumble across a couple of corpses frozen in an unnatural pose, and the brain does the rest, filling in a tragedy complete with...
Tencent spent six years and hundreds of millions on a GTA competitor – the game Last Sentinel was shut down
Last Sentinel got a flashy cinematic reveal at The Game Awards 2023, positioned as an open-world sci-fi action game from former Rockstar Games developers. Three years later, without ever showing gameplay, the title has apparently...
Chinese scientists have created a night vision device with full-color imaging instead of green
Researchers at Beijing Institute of Technology have built a prototype that turns infrared light into full-color images. This approach to night vision goes beyond the usual monochrome displays. The system relies on mercury telluride quantum...
Total Solar Eclipse 2026 – Where is the Best Place to Watch
The total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026, is shaping up to be a big deal for astronomy fans. It's the first total solar eclipse since 2024, and it happens to line up with the...
Second fan film about Vader released 8 years after the original, featuring Mace Windu
The second part of a fan-made Darth Vader short film dropped this week. Work on the sequel took nearly a decade and came with constant delays. The film was originally titled "The Amethyst Blade," and...
Time started showing ads to AI agents and earning money from bot traffic
Time media company has taken a step toward a new kind of economic reality – the publisher has started serving ads meant not for humans, but for AI agents. Ally Bank and the Project Management...
Fallout 4 fan walked the Freedom Trail in real Boston and was amazed at how meticulously Bethesda recreated the city in the game
A good video game can do more than fill a couple of evenings – sometimes it sends you out into the real world with a map in hand. Virtual walks through ruins occasionally turn into...
Gothic 1 Remake received a major 1.0.4 update with a hundred fixes
Alkimia Interactive has released another major patch for Gothic 1 Remake. Update 1.0.4 fixes numerous technical issues, gameplay bugs, and chapter-related errors. Among the technical fixes, the developer addressed various crashes and freezes, dialogue hangs,...
SpaceXAI agreed to dismantle 69 illegal gas turbines from one of its data centers, but it will take a whole year to do so
SpaceX has promised to fully remove unpermitted gas turbines powering the SpaceXAI data centers near Memphis, Tennessee, by July 2027. TechCrunch first spotted the company statement. The 69 turbines sparked a lawsuit from the NAACP,...
A gamer crafted a novice mage's robe from Skyrim in real life – he was hindered by both the game itself and the weather
Armor from Skyrim rarely survives contact with the real world unscathed. Patching a texture in a game engine is one thing – figuring out what material something is actually made of when the models themselves...
Report showed that 34% of disc games for PS5 and 50% for Xbox Series X do not work fully without downloading
Sony is preparing to end disc production in 2028, so physical media is gradually fading into history. A recent report shows that even buying a disc doesn't guarantee you can launch a game without downloading...
A Crusader Kings 3 player raised such a greedy character that a request to lend five coins could give him a heart attack
In Crusader Kings 3 you can die from poisoned wine, a dagger in the back, or a lost war, but sometimes the deadliest weapon turns out to be a request to borrow a couple of...
Nexus Mods finally decided to deal with mods with AI content
Nexus Mods has finally taken on one of the most annoying problems plaguing its platform. As generative AI has grown more popular, more mods have started using it during development, but users never had a...
China launched a 582-ton magnet for a nuclear fusion reactor "artificial Sun"
The Institute of Plasma Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a video showing the world's largest superconducting magnet for fusion reactors. The toroidal field coil completed full-parameter testing a month ago, and the...
8 years later, Red Dead Redemption 2 players are trying to figure out how ships from the Saint Denis port reach the sea
The biggest city in Red Dead Redemption 2 sits on fresh water, and the only route downstream ends at a waterfall. A map breakdown recently made the rounds in the community – almost eight years...
Mahershala Ali officially says goodbye to the role of Blade and explains why
Mahershala Ali confirmed that the Blade movie is officially done for him. In an interview with GQ, the actor stated that if Marvel Studios ever does make the film about the famous vampire hunter, it'll...
Photoshop's Rotate Object feature turns a photo of your hand into a 3D drawing reference
Adobe employee Daichi Ito shared a practical use case for a new Photoshop feature that lets you rotate 2D objects in three-dimensional space. According to him, artists who draw characters often need to understand how...
PlayStation 6 might ship with 24 GB of RAM instead of 32 GB as Sony tries to keep costs down
During a recent earnings call, Sony executives acknowledged that the PlayStation 6 release window remains undecided. The culprit is an ongoing memory shortage that has driven component prices high enough to push the console's total...
A Minecraft player built an automatic ice bridge using armor stands with Frost Walker enchantment
A Minecraft player known as Historical-Ad3668 shared on Reddit an inventive redstone contraption that turns the Frost Walker enchantment into an almost magical bridge-building mechanism across a body of water. The design has already been...
